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Definition of Vanuatu in US English:

Vanuatu

proper noun

A country consisting of a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific; population 265,000 (estimated 2015); official languages, Bislama, English, and French; capital, Vila. The islands were administered jointly by Britain and France as the New Hebrides. Vanuatu became an independent republic within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1980.